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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 156, 5 July 1916, Page 3

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HIDE AMD SKIN REPORT. Daigety & Co., Etd., report: —We held our usual fortnightly sale of sheepskins, hides, tallow, and oddments of wool. There was good competition for all classes of produce, sheepskins showing a further advance of about a Id per lb, and god calfskins realising as iiigh as lid. All bale wool is being retained for our next special crutching sale, to be held on JTu'y 7. A large catalogue will be. submitted, and a good attendance of buyers is assured. The following was tiie range of prices today; — oiieepskins. —Pine crossbred, Hid to x_d; medium crossbred, lU]d to 12 Jd; snort to half wools, Sd to Hid; dead and damaged crossbred., 7d to 10:fd; inferior and baaly damaged, 2d to Sad; iambs’, 7:}d to 12}d; damp, salted and green, 2s (id to 15s’; pelts, Is 2d to Ms jd; lambs’ salted, Ms (id to 7s. Hides. —Ox, heavy, (301 b up, Hid to Hid; ox, medium, 50ib to 501 b, Hd to ox, light, -19 Jo and under, lOd .o lOld; cow, heavy, 551 b and over, ,-tcl to 10 yd; cow, medium, 421 bto 541 b, jyd to lOld; cow;, light, under 421 h, Sd .u 104 c l; cut, siippy and inferior, 7i|d ,o ygd; bull, stag, (ijd to Bjd; yearlings, ifilb to 241 b, 7 Id to 10-id; calf, superior,, ap to 1(51 b, 12d to I41d; calf, medium '.o good, 10,d to I2d; calf, damaged, Sd to Hid. Tallow. —in casks, 29s to M2s; in tins, etc., 29s to MOs 9ci. Sundries.—Opossum skins, Is (id; horsehair, Is 4d to Is (id; cow tails, Is.